Mary of Pentecost Catholic Community Celebrates Pentecost Liturgy at St. James Church in San Francisco today.
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Pentecost (C)
June 7, 2025
Gathering Song: You Have Anointed Me
OPENING PRAYER
Presider: We gather joyfully for this celebration and we begin in the name of God, Source of all Being, Eternal Word and Holy Spirit,
All: Amen.
RER: God is with you.
All: And also with you.
Litany of Praise
Presider: Gracious God, knowing that your love for us is never ending we pray:
You pour your Spirit upon all flesh; we try to fence her in.
God Have Mercy
You speak through many languages; we block out foreign accents.
Christ have mercy.
You make one body from all our gifts; we refuse to be connected.
God have mercy.
Let us pray:
Fire-borne God, before the violence of your passion no separating wall can stand: may your unseen Spirit pour herself upon young and old, upon all people, throwing our borders into confusion and giving us a new language of love; through Jesus Christ, the Image of God’s Being.
Amen
Liturgy of the Word
First Reading: Acts 2:1-11
Psalm: Send Out Your Spirit (Manibusan) Sung
Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 12:3-7, 12-13
Sung Alleluia
Gospel: John 20:19-23
Homily: Bridget Mary Meehan
(Stand)Prayers of the Faithful:
Presider: O God, we approach you in confidence as we ask for your mercy and grace.
Intercessor: For these and the prayers we hold in our hearts,
We pray,
People Hear us, O God.
Presider: Trusting you are with us this day and always, we ask these prayers in the name of Jesus Christ. AMEN.
Please be seated.
LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST
Preparation of the table
Preparation: The House the Love is Building
Presider: (lifting the bread) Blessed are You, God of all creation. Through Your goodness we have this bread to offer, which earth has given and human hands have made. It will become for us the bread of life.
All: Blessed be God forever.
Rosemary: (lifting the chalice) Blessed are You, God of all creation. Through Your goodness we have this wine to offer, fruit of the vine and work of human hands. It will become our spiritual drink.
All: Blessed be God forever.
Please stand
Eucharistic Prayer
Presider: God is with you.
All: And also with you.
Presider: Lift up your hearts.
All: We lift them up to God.
Presider: Let us give thanks to our loving God.
All: It is right to give God thanks and praise.
Preface:
God of wind and flame, we praise your wild beauty flying free in the shining air.
Your Spirit nurtured life in outrageous diversity; she raised up judges to protect the weak, made kings dance in ecstasy, and prophets burn with holy anger.
Through the Spirit, the Word became flesh and the world was called to hear his voice; she drove him to the desert, his first sure step to victory over death and division.
When he left his followers, she was poured out on al flesh and crossed the line between all persons, enslaved and free, Jew and gentile.
She is with us now, bringing Christ near filling our worship, guiding us in hope.
Therefore, with all God’s rainbow people, and all who have tasted the Spirit of life, with the thirsty and the cold, and all who long to dream again, we worship your glory as heaven touches earth as together we sing your praise:
All Sing: Holy, holy, holy,
loving God of all.
Heaven and earth are full of your glory,
Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed the One who comes in the name of our God.
Hosanna in the highest,
Hosanna in the highest!
Presider: Loving God, in You we live and move and have our being.
This table by which we celebrate your love is adorned with the gifts of creation, a table where all are welcome, and from which no one is excluded.
We thank you for Jesus, who loves so greatly,
teaches so clearly, and proclaims so courageously.
Jesus sets people free from images, ideas, and religious practices that bind them in fear and that create a false sense of separation from You and each other.
Through Jesus, we know our loving actions become a share in your life. In Jesus, your Spirit challenges us to make your presence more visible on earth.
We thank and praise You for Your Spirit of life and love in and among us.
People of God, I invite you to extend your hands and pray with me:
All: Loving God, intensify the presence of Your Spirit in these our gifts, as they, and we, become the Body and Blood of Jesus the Christ, for our wholeness and the wholeness of all creation.
All: We remember that on the night before he died, while at supper with his friends, Jesus took the Bread, spoke the blessing, broke the bread and offered it to them saying: Take and eat, this is my body.
(Pause and bow)
All: When supper was ended, Jesus took the cup of wine, spoke the blessing and offered it to them saying: Take and drink of the covenant made new again through my life in you. Do this in memory of me.
(Pause and bow)
Presider: Let us proclaim the mystery of faith.
All Sing: Nurtured by your Word, nourished by your food, called anew to be your people, we acclaim your praise.
Presider: In the power of this Eucharistic meal, bless us anew with the gift of the Spirit, that our hearts may be open and receptive as You invite us into the fullness of life.
You have gathered us around this table in communion with Mary, the Mother of Jesus, the apostles, the saints, and all holy people.
We unite our thoughts and prayers with all who yearn for new life: those who are living and enrich our lives with friendship and love; those who have died and continue to sustain us in the cosmic communion of life.
In your presence, we give you glory with all creation and with Jesus through whom your goodness flows.
Doxology:
Presider holds up bread and cup
All: Through Christ, with Christ, in Christ in the unity of the Holy Spirit, may all glory and honor be Yours, all-loving God, forever and ever.
Sung Amen.
Presider: Let us pray together the prayer that Jesus taught us:
All:
Holy One beyond all names, Eternal Wellspring,
May love rise again in us today
With food for every table
Shelter for every family
And reverence for every life.
Forgive us our failings in love
And free us from all falseness
That the light of our souls may shine
And the strength of our spirits endure
For Earth and all its people
This day, tonight, and forever. Amen.
(Celtic Version of the Jesus Prayer by John Philip Newell)
Sign of Peace:
The Spirit bears fruit in love, joy, peace, patience, faithfulness, gentleness and self control; to each the Spirit is given for the common good of all.
May the peace of Christ be with you always.
All: And also with you.
Presider: Let us offer each other a sign of peace.
Sign of Peace
Communion
Fraction Rite
(Em joins/Breaks bread and prepare for distribution)
All Sing: Loving God, You call us to live the Gospel of peace and justice.
We will live justly.
Loving God, You call us to be Your presence in the world.
We will love tenderly.
Loving God, You call us to speak truth to power.
We will walk with integrity.
Presider and EM: (Holding up bread and cup)
For all who are hungry
All who are lost and searching
All who are in darkness this day
All who are still afraid
All who feel they are not worthy
May they somehow find their way
To the feast
And may we who are nourished
By this great sacrament
Be food for the hungry
And a bridge back to You
Behold who we are.
Become what we receive.
Behold the Bread of Life,
How blessed are we who are called to this table.
All: Jesus, you affirm our worthiness and by your word, we will heal the world.
Note: The Communion Bread is gluten free. All are welcome at our table of love and friendship.
Communion Song: We Come to Your Feast
Prayer After Communion
(Seated)
Presider: Spirit of Life, we thank you for disordering our boundaries and releasing our desires in this feast of delight: draw us out of hidden places and centers of conformity to feel your laughter and live your pleasure.
All: Amen.
Announcements
Announcements
—Our next Wednesday Mass is June 18 at 6:00 here at St. James.
—Saturday June 21 from 6:30-8:00PM there will be a Prayer Night Vigil in solidarity with our Immigrant Kin at the courtyard of The Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption.
Thank Yous
Thank you to all our ministers this evening.
Blessing
Presider: God is with you!
All: And also with you.
Presider: Please extend your hands as we pray our final blessing.
Presider:
May the Spirit be the storm that shakes the foundations, the leap of new fire, which turns oppression to ash;
Amen
May her wildness seduce us with holy desire;
Amen
Presider: And may the blessing of God be upon us in the name of God, Source of all Being, Eternal Word and Holy
Spirit.
Amen
Go in peace to serve God and the whole world!
All: Thanks be to God
Sending: All That We Have Seen
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